cheap是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 便宜的； 低劣的， 不值钱的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Pe-ter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in hon-our of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fash-ionable Parks.
-- 'It's likely to be a very cheap funeral,' said the same speaker;' for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She used to stay in the country as a child, and the impression she had retained of it was that the country was a refuge from all the unpleasantness of the town, that life there, though not luxurious--Dolly could easily make up her mind to that--was cheap and comfortable; that there was plenty of everything, everything was cheap, everything could be got, and children were happy.
-- "I always buy my maids' dresses myself, of some cheap material," the princess said, continuing the previous conversation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But elephants are far from cheap in India, where they are becoming scarce, the males, which alone are suitable for circus shows, are much sought, especially as but few of them are domesticated.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fact I might like a little dancing myself-- And the way she grins and gawps at that fool Brindle Morgan, the--the--the damnedest-- Oh, you and I are going to have a talk, young woman!And those hounds trying to pinch her off me--the one thing I've ever loved!Just because they dance better than I can, and spiel a lot of foolishness-- And that damn' orchestra playing that damn' peppery music-- And she falling for all their damn' cheap compliments and-- You and I are going to have one lovely little understanding!"
-- Once he must have been, for a week, dishwasher in the stench of a cheap restaurant.
-- The stink of cheap feeble cigarettes and cheap powerful cigars hovered about the table like a malign spirit; the floor was scattered with stubs, matches, old cards, and whisky bottles.
-- He walked out of the McGurk Building in a melancholy, deprecatory way, with one breeches leg bulging over his riding-boots; and however piously he tried, he never remembered to button his blouse over the violet-flowered shirts which, he often confided, you could buy ever so cheap on Eighth Avenue.
-- There could be, to a respectable person, no question as to their merits: Kellett the just and earnest man of domesticity whose rise was an inspiration to youth; George William the gambler, the lusher, the smuggler, the liar, the seller of shoddy cottons, a person whose only excellence was his cheap good nature.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, taking out of the bundle a fairly good though cheap and ordinary cap.
-- 332 Crime and Punishment 'Pyotr Petrovitch makes no secret of the fact that he had a cheap education, he is proud indeed of having made his own way,' Avdotya Romanovna observed, somewhat of-fended by her brother's tone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, at a grocer's shop, we bought an egg and a slice of streakybacon; which still left what I thought a good deal of change, out ofthe second of the bright shillings, and made me consider London avery cheap place.
-- We were so fortunate as to find one, of a very cleanand cheap description, over a chandler's shop, only two streetsremoved from me.
-- and I went; and Dora leaned out of the carriage to talk tome, and we talked all the rest of the way; and I rode my gallantgrey so close to the wheel that I grazed his near fore-leg against it,and 'took the bark off,' as his owner told me, 'to the tune of threepun' sivin'- which I paid, and thought extremely cheap for somuch joy.
-- There arethe names in the sweet old visionary connection, DavidCopperfield and Dora Spenlow; and there, in the corner, is thatParental Institution, the Stamp Office, which is so benignantlyinterested in the various transactions of human life, looking downupon our Union; and there is the Archbishop of Canterburyinvoking a blessing on us in print, and doing it as cheap as couldpossibly be expected.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as for Mrs. Hodges, Wright holds her very cheap indeed. She promised Wright a receipt, and never sent it.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He turned to an opening in the hedge, which he found to be a gate, and mounting thereon, he sat meditating whether to seek a cheap lodging in the village, or to ensure a cheaper one by lying under some hay or corn-stack.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Me put on airs fo' dem cheap niggers?
-- She was clutching something in her hand, and the reek of heavy cheap perfume came into the room with her.
-- The hurrying lines pushed her back onto the packed sidewalk and she smelled the reek of cheap corn whisky.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was horrible, and gave me a sickening idea of London; the more so as the Lord Chief Justice's proprietor wore (from his hat down to his boots and up again to his pocket-handkerchief inclusive) mildewed clothes which had evidently not belonged to him originally, and which I took it into my head he had bought cheap of the executioner.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That my health was much impaired, by the continual drudgery of entertaining the rabble every hour of the day; and that, if my master had not thought my life in danger, her majesty would not have got so cheap a bargain.
-- That I knew the ingredients very well, which were cheap and common; I understood the manner of compounding them, and could direct his workmen how to make those tubes, of a size proportionable to all other things in his majesty's king-dom, and the largest need not be above a hundred feet long; twenty or thirty of which tubes, charged with the proper quantity of powder and balls, would batter down the walls of the strongest town in his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole metropolis, if ever it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands.'
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